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• Pro-Settler Chabad Non-Profit Supports IDF Insubordination While Violating IRS Tax Rules

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Rabbi Dov Wolpe, U.S. non-profit violates tax laws Gal Beckerman has written a sharp investigative piece for the Forward amplifying points I’ve already made here about Rabbi Dov Wolpe and his suspect U.S. non-profit, Machanaim and its Israeli sister group, SOS-Israel. I noticed that Machanaim found a loophole ...
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• Military Attack on Iran Will Set Reform Back 50 Years

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Yesterday, I organized a series of media and public events on the Iranian nuclear crisis which featured Prof. Muhammad Sahimi, an expert on Iran’s nuclear program, Ian Lustick, a University of Pennsylvania political scientist specializing in Israeli politics, and Keith Weissman, former AIPAC deputy director.  ...
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• Israeli Palestinian Guilty of Flying While Arab

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Israel would have you believe it upholds the strictest standards of airline security to keep its passengers safe.  But Israeli Palestinians and a dark-skinned South African investigative reporter will tell you otherwise.  Amira Hass reports that Israeli security agents detained Sahera Dirbas on her return from ...
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• Palestine: Abbas Remains President

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has extended until further notice the tenure of President Mahmoud Abbas .  The term of the Legislative Council, which hasn’t met since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007, was also extended until elections could be scheduled.  The PLO also refused to resume ...
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• Romancing the Settlers and Their Stones

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Your tax dollars and mine support the hate spewed by this Od Yosef Chai yeshiva rabbi (Flash 90) Yesterday, Akiva Eldar published another installment in his powerful expose of the most extreme of the settler yeshivas and their funding sources both from the government and American Jewish donors.  He focussed on ...
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• Naveed Haq Found Guilty

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Naveed Haq, does this man look sane to you? A Seattle jury, deliberating for two and one-half days, found Naveed Haq guilty on all counts of aggravated first-degree murder.  In 2006, this Pakistani-American with a delusional personality who’d been treated for 10 years for mental illness, kidnapped his way into ...
  3 days ago

• Palestine: PLO to Extend Abbas’ Term

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced he will seek a  U.N. resolution  defining the Palestinian territories based on the 1967 borders.  Rejecting a return to violence, Abbas also said he would  resume peace talk s if Israel institutes a settlement freeze “for a specific period” and recognizes the ...
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• Lebanon: Sleiman Meets with Obama

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  Lebanese President Michel Sleiman met with President Obama yesterday. Obama  affirmed  “we want to do everything we can to encourage a strong, independent and democratic Lebanon” while also expressing concerns over weapon smuggling. In addition, the two presidents  discussed  U.N. Resolution 1701, which ...
  3 days ago

• Turkey: Subtle Shifts and Kurdish Tension

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  Claude Salhani comments that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s recent condemnation of Israeli action in Gaza and the AKP’s shift away from Euro-centric foreign policies “ come as no surprise ” in light of Europe’s continued position of stringing along E.U. accession.  For Salhani, this shift ...
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• Some Israelis Do the Right Thing, But Shin Bet Dithers

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Rabbi Menachem Froman offers Korans to Palestinian governor to replace those burned in Yasuf mosque (Rita Castelnuovo/NYT) There is hardly sufficient repentance that can repair the damage to Israeli-Palestinian relations caused by the burning of the Yasuf mosque in an act of hooliganism by settlers from the nearby ...
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• Netanyahu Rewards Pogromists With State Funding

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Didi Remez reports that the settler pogromists from Tapuach who likely torched the Yasuf mosque and those from Yitzhar, whose rabbi published a book claiming that Jews must kill Muslims, even children, who threaten Jews, will be financially rewarded by the Israeli government.  As a means of buying the settlers ...
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• Battle of Sheikh Jarrah

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Israeli police arrest protesters against Sheikh Jarrah evictions The settlers rage not just in Yasuf, where they burned a mosque.  They’re also on the move in East Jerusalem, where they’re steadily evicting more and more Palestinians in order to Judaize these Arab neighborhoods and eventually reclaim them for ...
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• POMED Event: U.S. Military Assistance: Obstacle or Opportunity for Reform?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  POMED and the Heinrich Boll Foundation hosted a panel discussion to discuss the role of U.S. military assistance in America’s attempt to maintain strategic interests without undermining democracy promotion and human rights. The event was the third in a series examining U.S. credibility on human rights and featured ...
  5 days ago

• POMED Notes: “Future of US-Egypt Relations: A View from the Next Generation”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
    The Hollings Center, in coordination with the Woodrow Wilson Center, hosted a panel to present findings from a conference hosted over the summer by the Hollings Center and Egypt’s International Economic Forum in Istanbul that convened a select group of 25 Egyptians and Americans from their late 20s to early 40s ...
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• Russia Will Back Sanctions, Israel’s New ‘If Wishing Made it So’ Approach to Iran Policy

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  You have to wonder what they’re smokin’ over there at the Israeli foreign ministry in Tel Aviv.  Haaretz’s resident government stenographer, Barak Ravid, reports that an anonymous government official actually had the effrontery to tell him that the Russians will back a new round of punishing sanctions against ...
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• Settler Pogrom in Yasuf, Mosque Burned with Quran

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Charred fragment of Muslim holy texts from Yasuf mosque (Atef abu-Rob/BTselem) B’Tselem provided me with this poignant image of the devastation wrought by thuggish settlers from the settlement of Tapuah, who torched the mosque of the West Bank village of Yasuf.  You can read the horrible words about what these ...
  6 days ago

• On This Day of Rededication of Holy Temple, Settlers Desecrate Palestinian Mosque

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Palestinians inspect burnt remains of copies of Koran in Yasuf mosque (Abed Omar Qusini/Reuters) Tonight is the first night of Hanukah.  As Ori Nir so aptly points out below, it is ironic that at the beginning of this holiday in which Jews celebrate the rededication of their Holy Temple after years of defilement at ...
  6 days ago

• POMED Notes: “Gulliver’s Troubles: The Obama Administration and the Middle East”

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 144
  The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a lecture by Aaron David Miller on the Obama administration and the Middle East. Miller served as a Middle East adviser to six secretaries of state and currently works as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Miller defined the purpose of ...
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• Oren Smears J Street–Again

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  Israeli ambassador Michael Oren has had an awkward relationship with J Street.  Despite much tender wooing by the group’s director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Oren stayed away from its first national conference.  This was viewed as a something between a slap in the face and a slap on the wrist for the Jewish peace lobby, ...
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• Israeli Poster Artists Honor 60th Anniversary of Geneva Conventions

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 473
  The Association for Civil Rights in Israel is sponsoring a poster competition to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions.  The winner of the contest will be announced on December 10th, International Human Rights Day.  The graphic art is extraordinary and confronts Israel’s human rights ...
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